Word: gaullist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What did the elections mean? Though not a completely accurate reflection of popular sentiment, they confirmed significant trends: 1) the continuing upsurge of Gaullist strength; 2) a mild revival of the Radical Socialists, the nearest French approximation to U.S. Republicans; 3) the decline of the Communists; and 4) the final collapse of the M.R.P...
...Lebanese mountain village, then to Jerusalem and to Cairo. Sardonic Sergeant Prayle of British Field Security tails her with amusement, with concern, and finally with love. Along the way the reader is treated to crisp descriptions of an ancient and holy landscape, of types ranging from a touchy Gaullist officer to an Orthodox archimandrite and his mistress...
Friendly Gesture. As Schuman's shaky government floundered, René Pleven, unofficial leader of the U.D.S.R., stepped up with a life preserver-with a long string to it. Pleven's proposition: if Schuman would promise to hold early elections (which the Gaullists would probably win), then the Gaullist R.P.F. would support him as an interim, anti-Communist premier. No longer would Schuman have to squeak by with dwindling majorities...
...bourgeois like millions of others, who runs a typewriter repair shop at Montparnasse: "Que voulez-vous? I worked hard all my life. My aim was to have a house, with a small garden by the Seine, so I could fish. All that is out now, ... I am not a Gaullist. I'm not a member of the 'Third Force,' and I am not a Communist either. I belong to the biggest party in France, the 'Je-M'en-Foutistes!'* You can call it the Fourth Force, if you Want...
...French machines, textiles and fertilizers might move southward again, in exchange for Spanish pyrites, copper and citrus fruit. Reflected the Gaullist France Libre: "Let's never play Don Quixote again. . . . By this silly closing of the frontier, we have lost an important market. . . . Others, more realistically minded than we, have taken our place. . . . Now we will have to reconquer the place we once held in Spain's foreign trade...